"Brother Junsheng, wait for me!" Hua Mulan chased after Zhao Junsheng and shouted.

Zhao Junsheng turned a deaf ear and still walked quickly towards the inner palace.

"Zhao Junsheng, stop me!"

A coquettish sound came from Mulan's mouth, and Zhao Junsheng, who was walking briskly in front, stopped and turned to look at her.

Hua Mulan walked briskly with her skirt, but she kept stepping on the skirt one after another, making her stumble several times in a row, causing her to lose her temper, and in a fit of rage, she tore off the entire skirt and threw it aside, exposing her calves outside.

The eunuchs and palace maids felt distressed for a while, this phoenix robe was very valuable.

Zhao Junsheng saw that the muscles on his face trembled.

Hua Mulan walked up to Zhao Junsheng and said, "Brother Junsheng, the ministers originally wanted to tell you about the disaster, but I stopped them. It's too big, and I'm afraid it will distract you if you know about it! The two armies are fighting, and the danger is abnormal, if this battle is defeated, my great cadres may shake the country's foundation, if you want to blame, blame me! ”

Zhao Junsheng was engaged in a fierce ideological struggle in his heart, and after a long time, he said: "I wrote to you before the class master returned to the court, and the minister of the army also wrote to the court about them, why didn't you write to say about the disaster at that time?" ”

Hua Mulan said: "The ministers consider that you and the soldiers are very tired after the end of the battle, so they want them to rest more on the way, if the news is told to you, you will definitely speed up the march, at that time the disaster has occurred for more than a month, the imperial court is carrying out disaster relief and disaster relief matters, even if you and the soldiers rush back in advance, it will not play a greater role, why let you work in vain?" ”

Zhao Junsheng's expression eased, and he stretched out his hand to take Mulan's hand, "Look at you, how big you are, you still have such a hot temperament, and you are not afraid of being laughed at!" ”

Hua Mulan looked down and stomped her feet: "Oh, it's all you, why are you walking so fast?" I can't catch up with you, so I tore my clothes in a hurry."

Zhao Ping caught up from behind, "Meet my father and mother!" ”

Mulan's coquettish expression just now immediately became kind, "Ping, you see that you have lost weight, and you have suffered a lot in the war in Mobei, right?" ”

"Let the queen mother worry, Erchen just did what he could, and didn't really use knives and guns with Rouran! If you want to endure hardship, those soldiers are much more bitter than me! ”

Hua Mulan's face smiled like a flower, "Ping'er has really grown up and knows that for the sake of others, you wouldn't be like this before!" It seems that what your father said still makes sense, and you should be allowed to go out to experience more experiences! ”

At this time, several other children jumped over and bowed down one after another: "Meet the father, the queen, and the third brother!" ”

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand: "Flat!" When your father was away, you didn't fall behind in your homework, did you? ”

"Back to my father, Master Wu is very strict with us, we must not dare to be lazy!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded, the expression on his face obviously eased a lot, "That's good, my father will test your homework later!" ”

One by one, the children stuck out their tongues and pretended to be afraid.

Zhao Ping immediately saluted and said: "Father, mother, and son-in-law are specially here to ask for peace, seeing that the queen mother and younger brothers and sisters are very good, the son-in-law is relieved, and the son-in-law still has some business to deal with, so he will leave, and come to see his father and mother later!" ”

Hua Mulan also knew that Zhao Ping had a lot of official affairs, and told her to pay more attention to her body and not let him get tired.

After Zhao Ping left, Zhao Junsheng sent the other children away, let them move freely, and the children dispersed.

The two returned to the inner palace, and Hua Mulan unloaded Zhao Junsheng's armor and ordered someone to give him a bath to wash up.

After washing, Zhao Junsheng knelt down in front of the low table and drank tea, Hua Mulan took two plates of pastries and put them down and said, "Let's pad my stomach first, it's not time for dinner yet!" ”

Zhao Junsheng took a piece of pastry and put it in his mouth to eat, "Where is the embankment?" ”

Hua Mulan sat down opposite Zhao Junsheng, poured him tea, and said, "In Hanoi County!" ”

Zhao Junsheng frowned and said: "I remember that the embankment in Hanoi County is very strong, and the imperial court has allocated funds to increase or strengthen it every year, how can the embankment break?" ”

Hua Mulan handed over the tea and said: "Local officials said that it rained heavily for more than half a month, it was July, when the river water level was the highest, under the heavy rain, the soil of the river embankment was soaked, and a large number of pipe surges appeared······

Hua Mulan gave a general account of what she knew about the bursting of the levee and the flood.

After listening to this, Zhao Junsheng instinctively felt that it was not right, the possibility of the embankment section of the Hanoi and Xingyang River bursting was not the greatest, and the imperial court had allocated huge sums of money every year to treat the embankments in several dangerous sections of the Yellow River in recent years, why was it the embankments of the Hanoi and Xingyang sections instead of other river embankment sections?

Although Zhao Junsheng suspected that there was something wrong here, he didn't ask, Hua Mulan had been staying in Chang'an and the palace, and she didn't know much, and what she knew was also what those ministers told her, and whether she knew was true or not.

Zhao Junsheng suppressed the doubts in his heart and asked, "How is the situation of disaster relief and relief now?" ”

There was a sad look on Mulan's face, Zhao Junsheng had never seen her like this, he only heard Mulan say: "The area and number of people affected by the disaster are too many, countless families have been broken, and countless fertile fields have been washed away; Even more terrible were the waterlogging and the outbreak of the plague after the flood! In fact, only about 80,000 people were swept away by the flood and drowned when the embankment broke, and more than 200,000 people who died later were infected because of the outbreak of the plague!

Because after the impact of the floods, countless fertile fields were destroyed, countless livestock were drowned, and millions of people suffered huge losses and were left homeless, and the imperial court could not compensate even if it had money! Originally, because of the huge cost of this northern expedition, and if this disaster occurs again, the treasury has been emptied, and I don't know how to spend this year! ”

Zhao Junsheng never expected that after the flood, there would be waterlogging and plague, which was a complete set of serial killings. What is waterlogging? Waterlogging is the inability to drain water after a flood, resulting in all the crops that could have been saved by draining the water and drowning.

The area directly affected by the flood is certainly not very large, but the area through which the flood flows is large, and as long as the crops are flooded for too long and are not drained in time, they will definitely be destroyed.

If the occurrence of floods can also make God take the blame, then the outbreak of waterlogging and plague is completely a serious dereliction of duty by local officials!

Zhao Junsheng was in a very bad mood, and he only barely ate some dinner.

After dinner, Zhao Junsheng got up and walked outside.

Mulan asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"I'm in too much of a hurry to eat, and I feel a little uncomfortable in my stomach, so I'll go outside and take a walk!"

"You wait for me, I'll go for a walk with you!"

Zhao Junsheng wanted to go for a walk alone and find someone to ask about the Yellow River's bursting bank, but Hua Mulan wanted to follow, so he had to wait for her to come with him.

The two walked in the corridor of the inner palace for a while, and Zhao Junsheng instructed Kang Yide, who was following behind him: "Send someone to call Wang Tanzhi, who is waiting for the lawsuit!" ”

"No!"

Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan talked for a while, Wang Tanzhi hadn't come yet, Hua Mulan fell asleep, yawned again and again, Zhao Junsheng said: "When you're tired, go to sleep first, I'll come later!" ”

"Alright then, hurry up, it's not too late!" After speaking, Mulan got up and went back to the dormitory.

Zhao Junsheng waited for a while, Wang Tanzhi walked over quickly, saluted, and said, "The minister pays a visit to Your Majesty, I don't know what Your Majesty has to call the minister late at night?" ”

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand to the eunuchs next to him and made them retreat into the distance.

"How much do you know about the bursting of the Yellow River?"

Wang Tan said: "I don't know which aspect Your Majesty wants to know?" ”

"Over the years, the imperial court has allocated funds to the governments of various places along the Yellow River, Wei River and other rivers for flood control, river embankment reinforcement and heightening, and river dredging.

Wang Tanzhi: "Yes! But this is not within the jurisdiction of the pending lawsuit! ”

Zhao Junsheng asked again: "This time the Yellow River burst its embankment, is there a factor that caused the embankment to burst because the embankment is not strong, and is there a problem with the embankment itself, so it caused the embankment to burst?" ”

Wang Tanzhi: "There are not only natural disasters, but also problems with the embankment itself!" But ······ This is not the competence of the pending lawsuit! ”

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand: "I didn't let the waiting lawsuit take care of this matter, I just need you to hand over all the news that the waiting lawsuit has in this matter, and it will be delivered on time at two o'clock tomorrow morning, I want to see it!" ”

"Obey the order!"

The next day, as soon as Zhao Junsheng arrived at the Qinzheng Palace, the teacup was in his hand, and Wang Tanzhi brought a file bag to ask to see him.

Zhao Junsheng asked the eunuch to bring him in, and Wang Tan stepped forward to meet him and handed over the file bag.

The eunuch next to him took the file bag from Wang Tanzhi's hand and turned around and handed it to Zhao Junsheng.

Zhao Junsheng put the file bag on the imperial case, opened it and pulled out a large stack of news records related to the damage caused by the Yellow River's bursting embankment.

It took Zhao Junsheng a quarter of an hour to finish reading all the news, and at this time his face had become very bad, he put the file back in the bag, handed it back to Wang Tanzhi, and waved his hand: "Okay, you go down!" ”

"Retire!"

Zhao Junsheng got up and stood outside the Qinzheng Hall for a full two moments before he made up his mind, and he beckoned to a eunuch and ordered: "Spread the decree that the Shangshutai, Zhongshu Province and the disciples on duty today will come to the Qinzheng Palace, and I will ask the government!" ”

"No!" The eunuch quickly departed after agreeing.

Every once in a while, the chief officials on duty in the various yamen of the imperial city rushed over.

"Your Majesty!"

"Flat!" Zhao Junsheng raised his hand, he looked at these ministers and asked, "Who is in charge of disaster relief and relief now?" ”

Pei Jin stood up and saluted and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, it's Zhang Tiandu, the waiter of the Ministry of Works!" ”